Revised Reading Response of Roses are Red

I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I have to say it was ridiculously good.

       This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him. Alex is the main character of this book and he is a pretty good detective, one of the best in the city and he can't even figure out who the mastermind is.

        I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. He writes it so that the prologue is in the  point of view of someone who is working for the mastermind. Then the book is written so that almost every other chapter is either the mastermind or Alex. And even though he is a bestselling author for adults, I don't think that it's intentional, but he writes it so that even me, a thirteen year old, can understand.

       While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery movies that have a huge surprise at the end. This one wasn't predictable like some mystery books.  I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that  I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was, but I also in't like it and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy ( Betsy is a fellow detective but also she is a rebound for Alex's wife, Christine, who divorced him).  The reader of the book ( which was me) found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything ( like scream at the book: that would make me look like a crazy person if I was in a public place) if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves.

       I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it. It was just like, BOOM, you know. It left me with my mouth open for literally like a minute. After that I rushed over to everyone around me and tried to tell them about the book but I only got to my brother, Elijah, because I ended up making the description so detailed, he wanted to read the book and I just had to watch for his reaction.

       This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books. or just any mystery books.

Extra Credit: Reading Response to movie and Book that I have read and Watched

       The movie (well not a movie) I've watched, and the book I've read is Heroes: Season 2. The books are comic books (which I don't usually read) and the series is all about these  main characters who have different powers, and people don't know it yet.I think that all of their powers are really cool, so let me tell you what they are:
Claire Bennet- Self Healing
Noah Bennet, -Nothing really, but he plays a huge rule in the whole show
Sylar- can absorb the powers of people he kills
Nathan Petrelli, - flying
Peter Petrelli, - before, in season 1, he used to be able to have the power of people he was around, now he has like everybody's powers because when he "killed" Sylar in season 1, I think he got Sylar's power
Hiro Nakumura, - can travel through time and space
Mohinder Suresh, - he is just like Noah, he doesn't have a power but he plays a very big role in the whole show, and he is a scientist for the people with powers.
Matt Parkman, - read peoples' minds
Niki Sanders, - can change personalities, but her other unusual side is way stronger, smarter, and more everything than she is.
Micah Sanders- can do anything with any electronic like he can go up to an ATM machine and just touch it and get money out of it.
West Rosen- can also fly
Maya- can kill people by putting a darkness in them and making them kind of bleed black stuff out of their eyes
Alejandro- when Maya's episodes come he helps her by kind of absorbing the darkness out of her, but he is immune to it.

 I think that the book is very different from the show, because in the show different things happen than in the books. It's just like any other show that starts with a pilot. They start out the same way as the book but then by the third episode it drifts off the plot line. Except the books I think were made after the show.

Even though they are different I think they are both very good.  I like the show a lot and I like the book not as much but it still very good.

The show and books differ a lot from regular tv shows that are based on books. Because first of all the books are all comics and they have very little dialogue and description. In the tv show they have a whole lot of dialogue and description, so I think that is supposed to be the other way around. Second the plot line is so messed up. Because in the first season as is in the books, there is this main phrase that says "Save the cheerleader, save the world". They have to save the cheerleader from Sylar.  Claire is the cheerleader and since Sylar can absorb any power of any person he kills, if he gets Claire he will be unstoppable in destroying the world because he can never die. Now in the second season, there is a whole new plot line of this virus that this company made that can stop the virus but will also kill 93 percent of the worlds population in just a year so, pretty messed up.

I think theis book and tv show is unique to other tv shows that are based of of books and it is also a really good tv show, I don't to much like the books.

IRB Reading Response 1st Draft

      I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I have to say it was ridiculously good.

       This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him.


        I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. The first chapter is in the point of view of someone working for the Mastermind, then the rest were of the point of views of Alex and the Mastermind every other chapter. I also like how even thought this author is this bestselling author for adult books it wasn't hard to understand what was going on at all.

       While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery books that have a huge surprise at the end. That it wasn't predictable like some mystery books.  I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that  I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy.  The reader of the book found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves.

       I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it.

       This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books.